ams OSRAM is a global leader in optical solutions with a focus on sensing and emitter technologies. The company is known for its imagination, deep engineering expertise and worldwide industrial manufacturing capacities. It imagines radically new applications that make life better for everyone. Using the full spectrum of light, ams OSRAM captures, analyzes and visualizes the information our environment provides. Its deep system understanding, paired with a unique expertise in the areas of emitting, directing, sensing and processing light, makes ams OSRAM the partner of choice for many industries.
Automotive mobility is changing radically. Advanced technologies and new mobility concepts are redefining how we drive. In the wake of megatrends like 5G, connectivity, smart cities, electrification and sustainability, cars are becoming smarter. They communicate with their environment (Car2X), take over driving functions, monitor their passengers and provide new experiences in terms of well-being, comfort and entertainment.
ams OSRAM plays a crucial role in this transformation as a trusted partner for the leading car manufacturers and their suppliers. As an innovation and technology leader for more than 100 years, the company offers cutting-edge solutions to its customers to differentiate it from competitors.
The ability of the company’s sensing and lighting technologies to capture and communicate with the environment makes it a key enabler for new mobility features. Light makes the environment visible; sensors make it safer. Their combination adds real value to road safety and comfort – inside and outside the cabin.
Throughout its long history, ams OSRAM has set benchmarks in safety and comfort – known for delivering high-quality, automotive-certified solutions at scale, from functional illumination to standard forward lighting and signaling. As a trusted advisor for technology trends, the company engages in smart lighting and sensing solutions that shape the mobility of tomorrow, such as intelligent forward lighting, ambient lighting, in-cabin sensing, exterior sensing for automated vehicles, intelligent signaling, displays and projections.
Automotive interior – safe and convenient journeys
Tomorrow’s automotive interior will be fundamentally different in shape and functionality. With automated features increasingly taking over from the driver, cars will no longer simply be a means of moving from A to B. They are evolving into individualized living spaces and entertainment zones. In line with this trend, bigger and better displays are on the rise. New control systems are emerging – like smart surfaces or gesture control for seamless human-machine interaction – while customizable ambient light solutions support onboard wellbeing.
On the way from assisted to fully autonomous driving, systems that monitor the driver and passengers become essential. Innovative sensor solutions for driver and in-cabin monitoring improve safety by capturing data on the vehicle’s occupants and forwarding it to its safety systems. AR head-up displays reduce distraction, revolutionizing the way information is presented to the driver.
ams OSRAM offers its customers a unique product portfolio covering the key technologies needed to realize the future of automotive interiors. A broad range of high-quality IREDs, VCSEL emitters and 2D and 3D sensor components enable gesture control, driver monitoring and in-cabin monitoring. Miniaturized LED solutions and ambient light sensors illuminate displays and dynamically adjust their brightness. And edge emitting lasers provide the basis for next-generation head-up displays.
ams OSRAM’s high-precision LEDs for customizable RGB ambient lighting not only offer car manufacturers a distinctive design element, they also help drivers stay concentrated and lower their stress levels, using the biological effects of light. With its technologies, ams OSRAM is shaping automotive mobility, making it safer, smarter and more comfortable.
New interior lighting opportunities – decoration, illumination and functionality
ams OSRAM and TactoTek jointly boost possibilities for future automotive interior illumination by integrating side-looking automotive RGB LEDs in thin, smart structures using an innovative in-mold process.
This opens new options for the car interior market. Molded into a thin plastic trim part with TactoTek‘s IMSE technology, the ams OSRAM RGB side-looker LED OSIRE® E5515 allows lightweight and thin applications designed for car interiors. This combination enables designers to build rich, seamless designs by merging surface decoration, illumination, and functionality into one smart surface, eliminating the boundaries that have held back designers when designing with conventional and current technologies. The broadest color gamut on the market means design freedom without compromising color quality and performance.
